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How do dolphins choose their name?
- htk 4y agoQuite interesting article. I'll leave the following excerpt to entice those who haven't read it yet: Dolphins are excellent whistle mimics if they want to be, so urine might be more resistant to cetacean identity theft.
- stuartaxelowen 4y agoIncredible (but maybe unsurprising) that nature is maximizing information density and designing efficient codes (a’la information theory) depending on their noise environment!
- hackernewds 4y agoImpressive since it exemplifies the natural intelligence inherent in dolphins
- ehhhhhhhhh 4y agoDolphins are interesting. Researchers tried to get someone living with one in a waist high pool all day to teach it language humans could understand. Funding started running out, so the researcher started giving it handjobs and LSD. No luck. Source: https://boingboing.net/2013/06/18/dolphins-on-acid-and-other-ba.html https://boingboing.net/2013/06/18/dolphins-on-acid-and-other...
- dTal 4y agoYou misrepresent the scenario to the point of fabrication; while each event you describe did individually (sort of) happen, the narrative is all scrambled. And your "source" is just a link to another article, which 404s. Wikipedia link, for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt
- hackernewds 4y agoFascinating information to supplement. However the Wikipedia doesn't produce any citations either, so tough to accept human edits as truth. additionally, the Wikipedia article actually doesn't contradict what ehhhhhh commented.
- feet 4y agoThe article lists four citations, not sure why you claim there are none?
- pawsforthought 4y agoThis article from The Atlantic gives some more context to the delphinophilia: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/how-a-science-experiment-led-to-sexual-encounters-for-a-woman-and-a-dolphin/372606/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/ho...
- pictiPig 4y agoRadiolab had an episode interviewing Margaret Howe, which was very informative if my memory serves. https://radiolab.org/episodes/hello-podmash https://radiolab.org/episodes/hello-podmash
- pvaldes 4y agoI would not discard that funding started running out after seen how they were spending the money on turning the dolphins into party animals.
- andsoitis 4y ago> that they use to identify themselves for the rest of their lives. while most humans are given names by the parental unit. dolphins are a step ahead and will thank us for all the fish one day.
- ggm 4y agoCetaceans have a unique call. Contextually is that a name, a locator or an identity? They're not the same. I'd say this is call by value not call by reference, or call by name. That the call is matrilinially informed was interesting as was urine as a determinant.
- pawsforthought 4y agoYet another nail in the coffin of human exceptionalism. Consider not what you are eating, but who. To those who would downvote, I encourage you to read the following: https://aeon.co/essays/human-exceptionalism-is-a-danger-to-all-human-and-nonhuman https://aeon.co/essays/human-exceptionalism-is-a-danger-to-a...
- medv 4y agoThis is bad.
- tgv 4y agoGo tell the lions they're not exceptional. I'm sure they'll switch to tofu. The argument isn't convincing. It relies on a tired rethorical trick: invent some syndrome, claim it is the basis for something you don't like, then taint the syndrome. It doesn't convince. And in this case, the outcome will be negative: once everyone fully realizes we're just normal animals, why not behave like them? Meat's back on the menu.
- pawsforthought 4y agoExcept, industrial agriculture and fisheries are nothing like subsistence predation. I see no problem with hunter-gatherers’ predation of wildlife, provided they act in ecological balance with their environment (and they do tend to, out of self-preservation). That’s not the world the vast majority of us live in though. We kill on the order of 1 trillion animals every year. We’re devastating Earth’s biosphere for the sake of an unnecessary dietary choice. We’ll reap what we sow, sooner or later.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago> once everyone fully realizes we're just normal animals, why not behave like them? Lions hunt and eat pretty, they also regularly kill cubs when taking over a pride. Does that make infanticide acceptable? This argument is at least as silly as the parent's.
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- srean 4y agohttps://fore.yale.edu/news/Dolphins-gain-unprecedented-protection-India https://fore.yale.edu/news/Dolphins-gain-unprecedented-prote... There is still some confusion on whether the Indian court opined that dolphins should have the rights to non-human personhood or the Indian courts granted such rights. Either way its a welcome move.